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WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors
pipdig, WordPress theme and plugin provider, caught distributing malicious code to customers and DDoSing competitors…
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Web Graphics Done Right
Start taking graphics on the web seriously and boost your applications' performance by learning the essentials about digital image formats.
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Gmail Icons are Hard
nikitonsky: Default mode for GMail action panel is icons. Icons are great: they take little space, don’t need to be translated. Only one caveat: more often than not there’s no good, well-understood icon for your action.
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Five years of React Native at Shopify
Five years ago, we announced that React Native (RN) is the future of mobile at Shopify. Today, we are excited to share the progress we've made, lessons learned, and what the future holds. To recap, we decided to switch to RN for 3 main reasons: Write it once - Stop building the same features twice, once on iOS and…
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I don't want to fill out your contact form
This is my personal blog, where I write solely in my personal capacity. It does not represent the positions of any organisations I'm associated with.
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Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation
Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.
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Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
Now that Bluesky's got its own RSS feeds, here's what you should know
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A modest critique of Htmx
At work, we really like the basic simple idea of Htmx. Based on using Htmx in a non-trivial user interface, across a team, we’ve found that the following cases are actually not simple and are quite complicated.
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Async and Await
The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
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WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
People are excited about running WebAssembly outside the browser. People are also excited about running WebAssembly from languages like Python, Ruby, and Rust. Lin Clark's Code Cartoons are back, illustrating ...
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There's no way to report spam on Google Drive
Recently, I've been getting a lot of spam notifications from Google Drive. Here's a sample: The notifications come direct to my Android phone via the Drive app - they don't appear in my Gmail spam folder. There is no way to report the abuse. If I go to the list of notification in the Android apps, there's no option to…
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Hacking PayPal Accounts with one click
Today I am going to publicly disclose a critical vulnerability I have found during my research in PayPal, This vulnerability enabled me to completely bypass the CSRF Prevention System implemented by PayPal, The vulnerability is patched very fast and PayPal paid me the maximum bounty they give ;).
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The Fall and Rise of SVG
The Silicon Publishing Blog, posts about publishing technology from the world experts at InDesign Server automation.
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Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework
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Realism in UI Design
The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability…
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Web Developer's Guide to DNS
Every developer should know the basics of DNS, the critical protocol at the heart of the web.
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Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
Looking to learn more about what makes TomTom tick? Read the latest articles and news about maps, location data and the world they power in the TomTom Newsroom.
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Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)
When designing a modern API, learn when to use RPC (gRPC), OpenAPI or REST.
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
The one where I go crawling back.
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Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage
On January 13th 2022, Firefox became unusable for close to two hours for users worldwide. This post highlights the complex series of events and circumstances that, together, triggered a bug deep in the networking code of Firefox.
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Firefox expands fingerprint protections
With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets we
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Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
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A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites
In cases of emergency, many organizations need a quick way to publish critical information. But existing (CMS) websites are often unable to handle sudden spikes in traffic.
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Opera is Reborn
Over the last year, we have introduced a series of new features such as free VPN and native ad blocking. Earlier this year we also presented Opera Neon, a concept browser that gave you a glimpse into the future of desktop browsers. Now, the best parts of Neon are being brought to the new Opera […]